June 13, 2003

Shirt Alert

By MEGAN ROONEY

Students at Duke University, feeling that its reputation for homophobia was undeserved, have decided to give it a makeover -- starting with their own wardrobes.

This spring, hundreds of students wore brightly colored T-shirts emblazoned with the words "gay? fine by me."

The T-shirt campaign was conceived by a group of undergraduates over a dinner conversation about the Princeton Review's anointing of Duke as the most homophobic college in the country in 1999. (Princeton